UFC 260 Bonuses: Luque, Woodley Capture ‘Fight of the Night’ for Wild Round of Action

Vicente Luque and Tyron Woodley weren’t in the Octagon for long on Saturday, but the time they spent together was memorable enough to earn them an additional $50,000 apiece.

Luque and Woodley received “Fight of the Night” honors for their frantic welterweight scrap in the UFC 260 co-main event at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. A more-aggressive-than-usual Woodley did his best to take the fight to Luque in the early going and briefly rocked his opponent with a pair of right hands. However, Luque regained his bearings, hurt Woodley with a counter right of his own, swarmed with offense and drove his man to the canvas, where he locked in a brabo choke for the finish 3:56 into Round 1.

Elsewhere, Francis Ngannou was a relatively easy selection for a $50,000 “Performance of the Night” award, as he avenged a previous loss to Stipe Miocic to claim heavyweight gold in the evening’s headliner. “The Predator” displayed improved takedown defense and dropped Miocic twice, ultimately folding the Ohio-based firefighter with a left hook and sealing his victory with one massive hammerfist 52 seconds into the second frame.

Finally, Sean O’Malley claimed the card’s other $50,000 “Performance of the Night” check with a flashy knockout win over Thomas Almeida in a featured bantamweight tilt. After mistakenly assuming he had a walkoff KO in Round 1, O’Malley continued to outstrike his opponent into the third period, where he dropped Almeida with a laser left hand and knocked him cold with a standing-to-ground right at the 3:52 mark of the round.